grabbing genetic material left behind in the animals’ paw prints. From this, they’ve not only been able to determine the species (the polar bear footprint is, admittedly, a bit of a giveaway ...

A 17-year-old schoolboy mauled to death by a polar bear during an adventure holiday had found a paw print just two days prior to the lethal attack, an inquest has heard. Horatio Chapple was on an ...

A 17-year-old boy who was mauled to death by a polar bear on an Arctic exhibition found a paw print two days earlier, an inquest has heard. Horatio Chapple, from Salisbury, was on an adventure ...

The team investigated a total of 130 polar bear paw prints and was able to successfully isolate DNA from 46 percent of them. In a second paper, published in the same journal this week, a different ...

Von Duyke was working to come up with a methodology to identify polar bears using the DNA left in snowy bear tracks. That was in November 2020. By the same time the next year, the research team ...

The zoo announced the sad news on Saturday that beloved polar bear Buzz, named after astronaut Buzz Aldrin, died at the age of 24. “It is with great sadness that we announce the loss of Como’s ...